Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-15
THE WAR Is OVER.

A great many people have been going
about declaring that the talk about the
rebel flags, southern outrages and de-
elective franchise were started by
northerners, and that but for the agita-
ton of the north we would hear nothing
of it. Those who have this opinion should
have been at Wheeling, w. Va, on Au-
gust 26, when Governor Wilson, of West
Virginia, lauded southern Confederacy to
the skies, took exceptions to G. A. R.
ideas on the return of the rebel flags, and
made red-hot Democratic rebel speech
in the presence of Governor Foraker, Gen.
Gibson and other Union veterans, who,
while on West Virginia SOIL should GER
tainly have been treated with ordinary
courtesy by the chief executive of that
state. To the credit of Ohio be it said
Governor Foraker didn't tamely submit
to the insults heaped upon him and other
Union soldiers, but replied to Governor
Wilson in the manner in which any one
possessed of self-respect and holding
Governor Foraker's position of loyalty
and patriotism would have done. In
short, Governor Foraker made ringing
and patriotic speech, in which he didn't
try to reopen the issues of the war, but
declared they were settled, and settled
forever; that the war was ended by the
surrender of the Southern Confederacy.
The fact is that Governor Foraker and
men like him are the ones who appreciate
that the war is over, that secession is
dead and the issues of 80 and 81 forever
laid to rest; but Governor Wilson, Gen.
Rosser and other men of the south have
persisted in reopening questions long
since settled, and are not backward in
declaring that after all the men who
were in the rebellion were right and the
men who fought for the north wrong.
President Cleveland has not been back
ward in exhibiting his sympathy for the
men of the Rosser and Wilson stripe, and
it is largely due to this fact that we hear
so much about the issues which people of
the north supposed were settled at Ap-
pomatox, and never expected to have re-
opened by the men of the south and the
president of the United States. Governor
Foraker in his patriotic and loyal declara-
tions has the support and admiration of
every loyal citizen of this great land, and
is making for himself record of which
any man may well be proud.
THE Democratic state committee is
boasting of its ability to carry Ohio this
year by the power of Doodle. One of the
managers Of the Democratic committee,
while in Columbus few days ago, said
that this was one of the years in which
the Democratic committee would not be
compelled to go on begging tour and
ask for funds. He said that all the
Federal office-holders in the state had
been assessed from to 10 per cent Of
their salaries, and in addition to this
large amount of money had been con-
tributed from outside the state. The
Federal administration, as whole is be-
behind the state ticket, and will see that
plenty of money is supplied with which
to boom it. He was not at all backward
in proclaiming his belief that enough
votes can be purchased in Ohio to change
the result, and he expects that this be
done and Powell elected governor. It is
for the intelligent and honest voters Of
Ohio to decide whether such insulting
claims are to be encouraged.
THE indecent Misrepresentation of the
party of crime concerning Governor For
aker's position respecting the valuation
of farming lands for taxation, merits the
condemnation and contempt of every
truthful man. The governor recon-
mended a revaluation, because through
the rascalities of sharpers and monopo-
lists who had withheld their personal
property, farming lands were entered
upon the duplicate unreasonably high.
Let the suggestions of the governor be
carried out, and upon fair revaluation
farming lands would be reduced fully
one-third. The taxes of the farmers upon
their realty are too high, and Governor
Foraker incurred the displeasure of the
corporations and monopolists when he
said so. Hence these tears.
THE brilliant record of Governor For
aker has attracted the attention and adj
miration of the whole country His adj
dresses, both political and official, have
been marvels of completeness, and he Is
one of the most gifted orators of the day.
He is progressive and enthusiastic in his
Republicanism, and at the same time is
thorough business man and one of the
most valuable public officers ever elected
to any position. in the gift of the people.
Dogs Killed by Electricity.
In Buffalo, the other day, twenty
friendless dogs were killed by electricity One
by one they were placed in a box about two
by three, lined with tin, with about an inch
Of water In the bottom. One by one they
were muzzled with a wire running through
the mouth. A simple touch Of the wire-a
corpse Buffalo Express.
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